. The street railway review . Y REVIEW. 945 540-kw. three-phase revolving field, 25 cycle, 400-voUGeneral Electric generators, directly connected to twoCooper cross-compound condensing engines, having aspeed of 94 r. p. m.; two 400-kw. rotary E. make; six 75-kw. static transformers, G. ; complete switchboard, having all the necessaryswitches and indicating apparatus, and also recordingwattmeters, and a Lincoln synchronizer. Three 300-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers are installed with roomprovided for a fourth boiler. The boilers arc arrangedfor burning either coal or natu
. The street railway review . Y REVIEW. 945 540-kw. three-phase revolving field, 25 cycle, 400-voUGeneral Electric generators, directly connected to twoCooper cross-compound condensing engines, having aspeed of 94 r. p. m.; two 400-kw. rotary E. make; six 75-kw. static transformers, G. ; complete switchboard, having all the necessaryswitches and indicating apparatus, and also recordingwattmeters, and a Lincoln synchronizer. Three 300-h. p. Stirling water-tube boilers are installed with roomprovided for a fourth boiler. The boilers arc arrangedfor burning either coal or natural gas, the gas beingused during the summer and coal during the winter, thegas not being obtainable at this season. For burningcoal each furnace has an equipment of two Jones under-feed stokers, and for burning natural gas each boilerhas 20 gas burners. Each boiler has a stack 48 in. in diameter and 76ft. high above the grates, and also for use in connectionwith the stokers there is provided one American Blower 3^a*-^CoA«*v.
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